Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo sing the duet “The Color Purple.”

Almost 10 years after Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo starred in the Broadway production of ” The color purple, The powerful singers sang a soulful duet during a Wednesday episode of Jennifer Hudson Show. The two musicians mocked each other while singing “What About Love,” a closing song about a forbidden romance that was heard at the end of the production’s first act.

Hudson praised Erivo’s breakthrough performance as Celie The color purple During Wednesday’s taping, she added that she performed brilliantly every night and earned flowers for it. Than that Evil As the star reflected on her Broadway performance as Celie, she became emotional. While she was performing in a small theater in London, a producer approached her and asked if she would like to be in the Broadway production. Erivo said she didn’t believe the producer until she had a plane ticket in her hand.

“It was a really long journey and the young lady there had no idea what lay ahead of her,” Erivo Hudson said of her role in ” The color purple. “She tried to get through every show.”

The color purple The Broadway production is inspired by Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name and the 1985 film adaptation by Steven Spielberg, which follows Celie’s life from a desperate child to a self-actualized adult. Along the way, the viewer meets honky-tonk singer Shug, played by Hudson, who not only develops a budding romance with Celie, but also helps her discover her inner strength. The coming-of-age story was also adapted into a musical in December 2023.

In Evil, Erivo plays Elphaba alongside Ariana Grande’s Glinda, Jonathan Bailey’s Fiyero and Michelle Yeoh’s Madame Morrible.